This book presents a comprehensive review of ethical issues arising in psychiatric care and research. Compared to the first edition, ten of the 40 chapters comprising the book are new, dealing with topics that were not covered in the previous edition. A further 28 chapters have been updated by the previous authors or completely rewritten by new authors. Containing contributions by leading European ethicists, philosophers, legal scholars, and psychiatrists, this book presents an excellent resource of information and insights for both psychiatrists and other professionals who wish to develop knowledge, understanding, and awareness about ethical issues arising in their practice, research and public health action.

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Includes 23 updated, 8 rewritten and 9 new chapters Relates ethical issues to changes and challenges in society Contains a whole new section on the perspectives of users and relatives

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Ethical Principles in Psychiatry: National, Regional and Worldwide Codes of Ethics.- Informed Consent in Mental Healthcare.- Mental Capacity and Supported Decision-making.- Confidentiality.- Justice in Access to and Distribution of Resources in Psychiatry and Mental Health Care.- A-Z of Ethics of User Involvement in Mental Health Care and Research.- Societal Framework of Psychiatry.- The UN CRPD and Mental Healthcare.- Ethical Issues Arising when Making Diagnoses in Psychiatry.- Economical Framework of Psychiatric Care.- Conflicts of Interests.- Stigma and Discrimination in Relation to People with Mental Health Conditions and Psychiatric Institutions.- Ethical Issues Regarding People Affected by Poverty and Serious Mental Illness.- Ethics of Deinstitutionalisation.- Forensic Psychiatry.- Ethics of Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence in Mental Healthcare.- Coercion in Psychiatry and the Position of Families.- 'Coercive' Measures.- Development of the WPA Position Statement on Supporting Alternatives to Coercion.- Prediction and Prevention.- Ethical Issues in Psychiatric Treatment.- Ethical Implications of Psychopharmacotherapy.- Treatment of Substance Dependence.- Ethical Problems of Psychotherapy.- Ethics of Non-invasive Neuromodulation in Psychiatry.- Ethics of Psychiatric Neurosurgery.- Sexual and Gender Minorities in Mental Healthcare.- Palliative Psychiatry.- Dementia and End-of-life Decisions: Ethical Issues A Perspective from The Netherlands.- Dementia and End-of-life Decisions: A Relational Perspective. Commentary on Ron Berghmans, Dementia and End-of-life Decisions: Ethical Issues A Perspective from The Netherlands.- Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in Psychiatry: An Overview of the Field.- Ethical Issues in Psychiatric Treatment Research.- Ethical Concerns in Carrying Out Surveys of Psychiatric Morbidity.- Ethics Committees for Clinical Research The West-European Paradigm.- Political Abuse and Neglect of Psychiatry.- Abuse of Psychiatry for Political Purposes in the USSR: A Case Study and Personal Account of the Efforts to Bring Them to an End.- Ethical Issues Regarding (Neuro-Enhancement).- Clinical Ethics Support in Mental Healthcare.- Psychiatric Advance Directives and Related Documents.- Teaching Psychiatric Ethics to Tomorrow's Medical Doctors.